Elevated railway



. 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. J. N. VALLEY. ELBvATEiD RAILWAY.

Patented Dec. 11,1894.

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No. 530,810. Patented 111m. 11, 1894.

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JOHN N. VALLEY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEV JERSEY.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 530,810, dated December 11 1894.

Application filed December 20, 1893. Serial No. 494,158. (No model.)

To all whom if may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN N. VALLEY, of Jersey City, in the county of vHudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Elevated Railways, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a strong and durable elevated railway structure, comprising but few elements or parts, and capable of being easily put together, and involving a comparatively low cost.

The invention consists in the novel features hereinafter particularly described and defined in the claims. i

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of an elevated railway structure embodying myinvention, a car being indicated in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a broken end View looking in the direction of the arrows, Figs. 3 and 4, parts being in s'ection. plan view. Fig. 4 is a broken sectional side elevation; and Fig. 5 is'a sectional end View illustrating a slightly different arrangement of the parts.

In constructing an elevated railway in accordance with my invention, I provide suitable posts A, to which suitable transverse `girders B are secured by'proper devices C.

The special construction of said posts, girders and securing devices as shown form no part of the present improvements.

To each girder B, at about the center, a

hanger D, is secured, the hangers being sub-- stantially of inverted U-shape and the horizontal member d, of which lies dat on the girders While the depending arms d thereof extend downward below the girder and are secured to the latter by bolts d2 or the like.-

To the hangers D, vertically disposed angle irons E, are secured, by bolts'e passing through one arm or wing of such angleA irons and through one arm or member of the hangers,

vand in likemanner, there are secured by bolts e' to the other member or wing of the angle irons, the longitudinally ranging channel beams or stringers F, to which the track rails G, are secured. The meeting ends of Fig. 3 is a brokenl VT-shaped rails Gr, rest on the lower flanges f,

and are secured thereto by bolts g', or other suitable devices as shown best in Fig. 2, while the upper anges f', lie against the under side of the transverse girders B. AB y thisconstruction the T-rails G may be removed and inverted should the upper edge become worn.

It will be seen that the structure above described comprises but few elements, and may be constructed at a comparativelylowcost and without the aid of specially skilled workmen.

In the form shown in Fig. 5, the angle irons E', of the form above described, are bolted to separate hangers D', of the inverted U-shape described in connection with the other iigures, and the channel bars F are secured to l the said angle irons on the inside of the latter, so that the iianges f, thereof, on which the T rails Gr' are secured, are disposed toward each other.

The meeting ends of each of the two channel bars F', are connected to the same hanger D', to form an expansion joint as above described.

The structure is designed for any form of car H, either a passenger car, as indicated in Fig. 1, or a freight car, and it is also suitable for transporting logs in lumber regions.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination with the supported hangers each having two depending arms, of rail-carrying strin gers whose respective meeting ends are each secured to one of the depending arms of the same hanger, substantially as described.

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of suitably supported transverse girders,

secured to said hangers, tracks in the form of channel irons which are secured to said angle r 5 irons, said tracks being adapted for reversal for bringing the flanges thereof either to the inside or the outside of the structure, and rails secured to said channel irons, the rails consisting of T irons having the heads therez o of disposed vertically, substantially as described.

JOHN N. VALLEY. Witnesses:

J. L. MCAULIFFE, C. SEDGWICK. 

